1) 'destruction' is the fate of the sinner that lives without observance of good custom; yet is it said in the same chapter (27): "If a twice-born man dies with the food of a C[=u]dra (lowest caste) in his belly, he would become a village pig, or he is born again in that (C[=u]dra's) family"; and, in respect to sons begotten when he has in him such food: "Of whom the food, of him are these sons; and he himself would not mount to heaven ...

he does not find the upward path" (29, 28).

In _ib_.8.17 the Brahman that observes all the rules 'does not fall from _brahmaloka,' i.e_., the locality of Brahm[=a].

Further, in 10.

4: "Let (an ascetic) do away with all (sacrificial) works; but let him not do away with one thing, the Veda; for from doing away with the Veda (one becomes) a C[=u]dra." But, in the same chapter: "Let (the ascetic) live at the end of a village, in a temple ('god's house'), in a deserted house, or at the root of a tree; there in his mind studying the knowledge (of the _[=a]tm[=a]_) ...